Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-11
State AFFAIRS.
The Bill Relative to Employing Convict
Labor on Farms Meets with
Defeat in the Senate.
A Bill Introduced in the House to Pre-
vent Cruelty to AnimaIs-The
School Bill Discussed.
Sergeant at "A rms Of the Senate, Pat II.
HeDntsey of Galveston, Arrested on
a Charge of Forgery.
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Ten, March l0.-An interest
ing discussion over the adoption OF a SUD
stitute House bill requiring physiology
and hygiene to be taught ia the public
| schools arose in the House this morning.
A motion to reject the committees sub
stitute for the bill was sustained and Mr..
Latimer's bill was taken up and consid.
cred. While an amendment was pending
TO strike out the imperative features Of
/ the bill requiring these branches to be
taught under penalty of forfeiture OF the
amount OF state money RppOrtioned to the
! schools, motion to reconsider the vote
| by which the substitute bill was lost pre-
vailed, and the substitute was once more
| adopted in place of the original bill. Sew
eral amendments were then offered and
! lost, and further debate was cut off by
moving the previous question, which car
ried, and the bill was engGossed.
! TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
| A bill has been introduced in the House
/ to prevent cruelty to animals by adding
subdivisions A, B, C and d to article 68l
of the Penal Code. The main features of
this bill are:
| l. That any person who shall WillfuIly
main, wound, poison. iDjure or cruelty
| beat any domestic animal, or Overd i've,
! overload, torment, deprive of necessary
sustenance, any lame Or disabled animal
/ shall be fined in any sum not less than So
nor more than $500, and in addition
thereto may be confined in the county
| Jail not more than sixty days.
! 2. Any person who snail keep, use or
receive money for admission 10 any house,
yard, pit or place kept or used Tor fight
| ing Or batting any bull, bear, dog, cock
| or any other creature, or aid or control
/ in such matters shall be fined rot less
/ than $40 nor more than 500 and in addi-
ton my be confined in the county Jail
! not more than sixty days.
3. Arrests may be made by SCENTS
authorized by tie board of directors Of
the TeX2s State Society for the Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Animals, one-haIf of
the fines 20 o to the society.
+. The provisions of the articles are
not to interfere with any scientific opera
tiOns conducted by persons authorized by
law.
THE CONVICT QUESTION.
employing cOnvjcts on farms, was the
subject of debate in the Senate this morn
! ing. The working of the system in Rob
ertson county was used as an argument
against the adoption of that feature of the
! bill requiring them to be worked in
| squads of not less than fifty nor more
than 100, to be kept in one camp or to be
hired TO any one person or corpora
ton, and the camps not to be
| located within less than twenty
miles. 1t is claimed by the opponents of
the bill that it has proved curse to that
county, and that the people by
| large petition appealed TO the Legislature
| to be relieved from the presence of con-
victs. The advocates Of the bill held the
| position that it would prove more prOflta-
BILE to the state and less Objectionable to
the people to place them under the sYs-
tenn proposed by the bill. The issue was
determined by adopting the majority in
stead of the minority report, which de
feated the bill.
SCHOOL BILL.
The school bill came up again in the
! House this morning on motion TO amend
by striking out the words "and the holder
| of any first grade teachers certificate"
| in the connection with the section
| giving the commissioners courts
| the power to create the Office of
county superintendents, and prescribing
their qualifications. Another animated
debate was INDUCED in by the members,
some of whom grew eloquent in elabOrat
ing their opinions. This amendment WAS
lost and the House proceeded to discuss
| the other sections of the bill.
TO PERMIT CERTAIN INDUSTRIES 10 IN
CORPORATE
The members of the House exercised
their powers over the consideration of
the the Senate amendments to the bill to
allow certain industries to be inCOrpOr-
ated under the laws of The state. These
amendments TO the bill were TAX up
each in turn and discussed. The amend
ments consisted mainly in provisions to
add some occupation, calling or industry
not incorporated in the list enumerated
in the original bill. The House con-
Cured in some Of the Senate amendments
and refused to concur IN others, and the
bill was sent back to the Senate.
DISTRIBUTING SEEDS.
Mr.. Holmes, tGe Governors private
secretary, says that il costs as much to
prepare the seeds now under preparation
for the dTOuth district As the seeds are
worth. This W rk Of parcelliug out and
labelling has been going on for the past
two days.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
The following charters were tiled in
the Secretary Of States Office to-day:
Progressive Cooperative Building snd
Losn Association Of Cleburne, capital
stock $40, 900; incorporators, q f Fry
mier. f. T. VIckers aud Br0wa Douglass.
The Noble Nat, Lock and Washer Com
pany of Houston, capital S25,000 incor-
porators, L. c. Noble, NJ G. HoUe, E. F.
Campbel!, A II. Swanson and j. Waldo.
ARREST OF THE sERGEANT-AT-ARMs OF
THE SENATE.
ergeant-at-Arms Pat II. Hennesey Of
the Senate was arrested ~ Sheriff
Hornsby this evening on complain
sworn to by Senator Knittle, chairman OF
the Senate committee on contingent eX
penses, charging him with forgery. The
particulars to be gathered from state
ments of Senator Kuittle and the circum-